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Joined: October 03 2008
Location: Là, sui monti.
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Posted: March 24 2012 at 18:56
HolyMoly wrote:
CPicard wrote:
Melt Banana (same as aboce, they're touring since the 90's).
I've been interested in checking them out - do you have a favorite album you'd recommend for starters?
To say the truth, I've been listening to them for... three months, maybe? So far, I've only listened to : - Cell-Scape (2003) - Bambi's Dilemma (2007). - Lite Live ver0.0 (2007)
i've been quite surprised: I was expecting something harsher, but an album like Bambi's Dilemma is close to some 90's punk-pop bands!
Joined: June 10 2011
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: March 25 2012 at 00:52
A few people have mentioned My Chemical Romance. What are your thoughts on their 2010 release, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. My only other MCR album is their debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, which I didn't like much on first listen, but grew to like it later. (Only had that one for a couple of years.) Anyway, I found Danger Days to be one of the most disappointing albums I've ever bought. Very mediocre pop-rock songs that sound like they were written by a record producer, not a rock band.
Joined: September 15 2011
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: March 25 2012 at 01:10
THE BLACK PARADE.
My favourite album ever, prog or not. It's just fantastic. I don't like anything else they've done, although the others have occasional good songs. Danger Days is my second favourite from them, but got bad on the second side.
The only thing bad about the Black Parade is Teenagers. Swap that with Heaven Help Us (a b-side) and it would have been perfection.
It's like epic and conceptual and quite dark in places. Call it emo if you want, but it's brilliant.
It's nothing like their first two albums by the way, much more melodic.
Joined: March 08 2008
Location: New York
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Posted: March 25 2012 at 16:16
My favorite albums from 1990 to Today (excluding ones listed on this site):
1990 - Lucifage - Danzig
1990 - Painkiller - Judas Priest
1990 - The Good Son - Nick Cave
1991 - Weld - Neil Young
1992 - Bone Machine - Tom Waits
1992 - Dirt - Alice in Chains
1993 - Tom Petty's Greatest Hits - Tom Petty
1994 - Dummy - Portishead
1994 - Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains
1994 - Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
1995 - Clouds Taste Metallica - The Flaming Lips
1996 - Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
1997 - Homogenic - Bjork
1997 - Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
1997 - The Mollusk - Ween
1998 - Cowboy Bebop O.S.T. - The Seatbelts
1999 - The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
1999 - Summerteeth - Wilco
1999 - Mule Variations - Tom Waits
1999 - I See a Darkness - Will Oldham (as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
2000 - The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
2000 - White Pepper - Ween
2001 - Vespertine - Bjork
2002 - Alice - Tom Waits
2002 - American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
2004 - Real Gone - Tom Waits
2005 - I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnstons
2011 - Bad as Me - Tom Waits
The 1990's both opened and closed with very powerful years for me. So far I've been really disappointed in the 2000's. And, from 2005 to practically today, I've only found a couple albums I truly enjoy. That's my 'modern' list, rock or otherwise.
Joined: March 19 2012
Location: Fayetteville,NC
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Posted: March 26 2012 at 18:09
Gallifrey wrote:
THE BLACK PARADE.
My favourite album ever, prog or not. It's just fantastic. I don't like anything else they've done, although the others have occasional good songs. Danger Days is my second favourite from them, but got bad on the second side.
The only thing bad about the Black Parade is Teenagers. Swap that with Heaven Help Us (a b-side) and it would have been perfection.
It's like epic and conceptual and quite dark in places. Call it emo if you want, but it's brilliant.
It's nothing like their first two albums by the way, much more melodic.
I think I would have to agree with you on that one
I would never cheat in a relationship...
That would require TWO people finding me attractive.
..I can barely find one.
Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
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Posted: March 26 2012 at 18:58
infocat wrote:
A few people have mentioned My Chemical Romance. What are your thoughts on their 2010 release, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. My only other MCR album is their debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, which I didn't like much on first listen, but grew to like it later. (Only had that one for a couple of years.) Anyway, I found Danger Days to be one of the most disappointing albums I've ever bought. Very mediocre pop-rock songs that sound like they were written by a record producer, not a rock band.
Danger Days is okay, it's an album I'll blast out in the car on the way to and from work but rarely play at home. Its four or five good tunes are spread a little too thinly for a 15-track album but still fun to scream along with as I'm driving through town. The problem for home listening is the concept's storyline only exists off the record so it doesn't hang together like The Black Parade, which lessens the effect of listening to it as whole. The Black Parade just works - it's flawed but it works, and for that I wouldn't change a thing.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., The Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Nirvana, Black Mountain. I realize some of the bands in my list are considered Prog Related or Crossover, but whatever.
Edited by Fox On The Rocks - March 28 2012 at 15:31
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